Lenten Recipe Guide

To help get you through the next few weeks of Lent, I’m re-posting an item we did which reveals some Armenian Church Lenten guidelines and recipe options.

Grape Leaves stuffed with Rice

Recap:

• The Western Church’s less strict Lenten practice excludes
  meat from the diet. The stricter Lenten diet of the Eastern Church excludes
  meat, fish, poultry, dairy, dairy products or eggs.
• To make some of our recipes into a Lenten
  version, substitute water or vegetable broth for any beef, lamb or chicken
  broth mentioned.
• You’ll
  notice that breads and desserts have been omitted from the menu list,
  but if you’re interested in either of these, just look for recipes which
  use oil or margarine in place of butter.  

Since this was originally posted, we have added a number of Lent-friendly recipes to our list. Feel free to scroll through our 2 sections of Armenian recipes in the right-hand column of this page where you will be led to the story and appropriate recipe. Refer to the points listed above to help determine the recipe’s suitability for Lent.


Below are menu options from our original collection of recipes to help you.